Story+1992-08-17+Auburn+Hills,+MI

´´Now, there I was....driving down through the town I grew up in....past the old pizza parlor ....past the drugstore....and over on the right, I looked into the window of J.J.Newberry´s and I saw, I saw a vision.....”
 * 17.08.92 Auburn Hills, MI, intro to ´Local Hero´**

´´Long time no see....good to see you.....haven´t been in a long time (?)(chuckles) but uh ....here´s a song about, uh, oh, the kids are good (chuckles)....here´s a song about that one thing that you just can´t face, hard for everybody (?) uh....took me such a long time to write this song, you know, and uh....it was even worse living it (chuckles) but, but uh....uh ....I made it through (?)....”
 * 17.08.92 Auburn Hills, MI, intro to ´If I Should Fall Behind´**

´´This next song, this is a song I wrote, uh, about ten years ago, I guess, and uh ....it´s a song I think I was, I guess I was thinking back on my own childhood and, and at the same time imagining what it would be like to be a father....and uh.....got a beautiful little baby boy and a beautiful little baby girl (chuckles)....yeah, and I read, I read a book that said ´Nothing you ever do for a child is wasted´....and uh, I think that´s true because, uh.... when I wrote this song I was thinking back to some very small thing that my dad used to do for me, something that probably was just, he didn´t even think about and it stayed, it stayed in my head my whole life so you kind of create these little permanent works of art in all your children´s head, you know, so....make ´em good (chuckles)....and uh....and I guess in that song I was trying to think about what kind of legacy we´re leaving our kids, what kind of world we´re leaving ´em, how we, how we try and nurture their little spirits and all that stuff, you know, so, uh.....I´ll stop before I sound like a presidential candidate and uh (chuckles) and uh....gonna do this anyway for all the moms and pops out there tonight....from my kids to your kids, wishing them all the best....”
 * 17.08.92 Auburn Hills, MI, intro to ´My Hometown´**

´´Thank you, thanks a lot....this next part of the show, this is the part of the show I like to call the love part of the show, here´s where I....get to compete with Neil Diamond a little bit and uh, for that Neil Diamond ticket and uh, let me start off by saying that before we get into it, I got to announce that we have a sponsor tonight (boos) oh, we have a sponsor tonight (bigger boos) wait, wait, wait, I´m not gonna try to sell you any beer, not gonna try to sell you no sneakers, I´m not gonna try and sell you no, uh, uh, uh, there are a few items in the hall during intermission but I´m not gonna mention those right now, so tonight our sponsor is love, that´s right !....now what I wanna know is there anybody out there who´s had their face stomped, who´s had a spike shoved right through their heart, who´s had their pride stripped away, who´s been completely humiliated, kicked in the dirt (?) by love ? (cheers) of course, who hasn´t ?....ah, but you keep coming back and that takes faith....and where there´s faith, there´s hope, and where there´s hope, there´s sex....this next song´s got all those things in it plus a thinly disguised diary of my own personal sexual habits, uh, ´cause you got fear and then you got love and the only way you get between the two is you got to move....”
 * 17.08.92 Auburn Hills, MI, intro to ´Leap of Faith´**

´´How lucky are you feeling ?....´cause I know what you´re thinking....´Did he fire five shots or six shots with that guitar ?´.... ´Five shots or six shots ?´....is there a shot left in there ?....well, how lucky are you feeling ?....how lucky are you feeling ?....well, let me see you reach for it....Well, I got thrown out of work on the Kokomo....”
 * 17.08.92 Auburn Hills, MI, middle of ´Light of Day´**

´´Oh yeah, I´m feeling good now....matter of fact I´m feeling strong right now....now....I know on that radio broadcast we did, anybody hear that radio broadcast we did ? (cheers) yeah, yeah, yeah, I predicted like my records were gonna go like, you know, back to the top of the charts, be number 1 and number 2 and....that didn´t, that didn´t exactly happen, I, I got a little (?) of myself a little bit, that´s alright, that´s alright, but uh....I also heard that, that there´s actually some seats left for the show tomorrow night, huh ?....that gets me down, that really gets me down, I tell you, and so I´m gonna little extra (?) attraction, I plan to wrestle a grizzly bear on this stage in about a minute and a half right here....not only can he rock all night long but the man is about to wrestle a grizzly bear, keep the rhythm, boys....(?) I think I still got a few of my moves left (a crew member dressed as a bear comes onstage and Bruce wins him in a wrestling match - according to the Backstreets Magazine)...felt good, now....of course we´re here tonight for bigger reasons than selling records, bigger reasons than flying all around the country and making the big bucks....can you tell me what those reasons are ? (backup singers: ´No´)....let´s rock !....”
 * 17.08.92 Auburn Hills, MI, middle of ´Glory Days´**

´´Thanks a lot....I wanna thank everybody for coming down to the show....this has always been a great town for us, a great town to come and play, uh....I wanna say thanks to all my old fans for the long and enduring support, I appreciate it....(?)....this is a song I wrote when I was, when I was 24 years old, I guess....(?)...when I play it now it sounds kind of like a dream or like a prayer or something (?)....”
 * 17.08.92 Detroit, MI, intro to ´Thunder Road´**

//Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi//